Please, if this has been done to death point me to the relevant postings.
I have been asked if I would like to get married. Ordinarily I would not consider this a good idea, I dont think much about the institution of marriage, but this is tempting for me now for other reasons.
My question is this, if you are for example married to a person from the EEC e.g. the Netherlands, will your rights as a married person be extended to the country you are living in outside the Netherlands lets say in Asia. Is your marriage recognised as legal outside of the EEC ? If something happens to your partner will you still have access to their will (lodged in a foreign country) lets say, even if you dont live in the Netherlands. Now here I also mean assets like houses outside the Netherlands and bank deposits etc. Will this include assets not mentioned in the will like shares or insurance policies . Will the respective embassy come to your aid and force the host country to recognise you as the legal spouse? Or is this automatic ? Or is this a non starter ? And should things like the will, even though the assets are not in the Netherlands be lodged in the Netherlands with a lawyer there, because only they recognise your marriage ??? This is less to do with wills but more to do with marriage rights outside the home country.
Lets say you move every few years, will same sex marriage makes you the heir apparent no matter where you are living at the time, and would the embassy enforce it ?
Sorry if I repeat myself just trying to order my thoghts on this one.
Any web sites that might deal with this, even in part, would be well received.
Thanks
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